Powering Ontario’s Circular Future: Opportunities and What’s Next

Join Allen Langdon, CEO of Circular Materials for a powerful conversation on the future of packaging circularity in Ontario. Explore the goals shaping EPR, the challenges facing recycling systems, and the critical role industry must play. From brands to manufacturers, discover how collaboration across the packaging chain can drive real change and build a stronger circular future.

Innovation Without Borders: Making Bold Ideas Actually Happen

Every company wants innovation. Very few know how to operationalize it. Paul shares practical frameworks, leadership lessons, and real examples of transforming ambition into action — plus the insights he wishes he had known from day one.

Turning Every Product into a Connected Experience Unlocking Data, Engagement, & Growth Through Connected Packaging

Packaging is entering a new phase of strategic value. No longer limited to protecting and delivering products, it now influences decisions, creates relationships, and generates measurable intelligence. Through connected packaging, digital identity, and real time data, every package becomes an active business asset that shapes customer behavior, extends engagement beyond purchase, and transforms interaction into commercial growth. Join this session to explore how the next generation of packaging will not simply deliver products, but influence experiences, create demand, and unlock entirely new sources of value.

Innovation Delivers – A New Day for On-press Efficiency!

Unlock advances from prepress to the pressroom with FLEXCEL Prime Plates. Discover how the next-generation plate technology advances pressroom efficiency and sustainability while enabling seamless adoption for FLEXCEL NX users. Designed to retain the industry-leading and proven FLEXCEL NX performance, FLEXCEL Prime plates introduces new performance-driven features that help printers. In addition to enhanced on-press performance, FLEXCEL Prime was engineered for straightforward integration and the Seamless Fit Printing approach enabling customers to take advantage of these capabilities without changing their base system. ​

Let’s Rethink Plastics

We need to rethink plastics packaging. Tried and true solutions can only get your brand and, more importantly, the Earth so far. Better use of plastics packaging and driving more value from plastics through recycling benefits us all. We are excited to introduce DiVERT made from the coloured PET collected in the curbside system along with our 100% PCR rPET packaging made up of Ontario curbside collected materials.

Waste Reimagined: The ReShade Innovation Journey

This presentation will share the innovation journey behind ReShade, an award-winning social enterprise that is disrupting conventional assumptions about waste by reimagining expired and unused cosmetics as a resource for creating artist-grade paint. What began as a creative sustainability initiative has evolved into a broader effort to rethink how society defines, values, and recovers materials. The presentation will also explore ReShade’s next frontier: innovative circular solutions for cosmetic packaging waste.

Flexo Reimagined: Automation, AI, and the Next Generation of Printing

Explore how disruptive technologies are transforming flexographic printing through automation, AI, digital integration, and smarter press technology. Discover how Windmöller & Hölscher (W&H) is helping converters simplify operations, improve efficiency, and build more agile, future-ready print environments.

See Automation Come to Life

Join us live at the event for an interactive demonstration and see the technology in action firsthand. Discover the future of industrial training with the Automated Assembly System — an immersive, hands-on platform designed to build critical skills in advanced manufacturing, systems integration, troubleshooting, safety, and industrial networking. Ideal for engineers, technicians, maintenance professionals, and emerging talent, this innovative system helps bridge today’s manufacturing skills gap.